Hitler Hotel

Impecunious independent journalist wishes to hobnob with the gentry

note: I already uploaded my Rhine Meadows introduction video from the Dreesen Hotel two substack posts ago. Here is actually another take filmed at the same time, but rejected by the editors for sensitive information. I’m putting it up here just for my subscribers. The information you learn about the origins of WW2 might surprise you.

What the deuce am I doing at a hotel like this?

In a town with streets like this:

And houses like this:

And lobby lounge views like this:

Somehow I just don’t feel like I fit in.

Wrong neighborhood, buddy. Hat courtesy the pond-cleaning company I work for in Montana; tee and dress shirts from Goodwill; coat, pants, ripped backpack, socks, belt and underwear from Costco; moldy Stan Smiths courtesy an old box I found in the garage; and plastic food bag courtesy Jumbo supermarket.

Here’s the wikipedia photo of the hotel:

And here is part of the wikipedia description: The Rheinhotel Dreesen is a Hotel in Rüngsdorf, a sub-district of Bad Godesberg, which is a municipal district of the city of Bonn, Germany. The building was established at the end of the 19th century. It is notable for its striking facade, its historical significance and its numerous prominent guests. The hotel is still operated by the original innkeeper family.

The reason we stayed there is simply because Bonn and Cologne are hugely popular for tourists (Cologne at least) and businessmen (both cities) and rooms are hard to come by at late notice. It wasn’t any more expensive out at Bad Godesberg in the Dreesen than in the town center of Bonn, so my buddy Stefan, whom we met for dinner in Bonn, got us booked here. When I found out about the fascinating history of the place, I was happy to splurge a bit.

Some big names have stayed here, in film, in music, and especially in politics. And I mean the biggest of names.

And the location is perfect for the intro to my presentation on the Rheinwiesenlager, or the Rhine Meadows Concentration Camps. I decided to film an intro to that report right after our night here, that includes a nugget of revisionist history you’re almost certainly unaware of:

Well, when you accidentally deviate from the script a bit, you just go with it:

So much for my natural, off-the-cuff attempts at documentary reporting. I might have to go back to the teleprompter, alaKamala.

Further no-teleprompter takes 3,4 and 5:

OK, sorry. I’m usually not one to put out a ‘bloopers’ vid. After yesterday’s post with the dark theme of that movie, I thought I’d lighten things up a bit. I hope you did manage to see my semi-decent intro after five takes that I put up a couple days ago. For now I’m just putting up these goofball clips as a teaser to the report that I hope to have made for kla.tv.

Nev n’ ‘Dolf. I didn’t ask if we had stayed in the Hitler Room. You never know, such questions might be verboten here in Germany.

And by the way, we really are doing interviews on this trip. As I’ve said, lots of rushing around with equipment, quality interviews (if I say so myself), files adding up to hundreds of gigabytes of data that need to be edited, etc. So it’ll all come out. Meanwhile, I hope you don’t mind regular reports on the lighter side.

Dreesen hotel pic off wikipedia- Thank you wikimedia user Leit. license CC BY-SA 4.0

Hitler with Chamberlain at Hotel Dreesen photo- Thank you Bundesarchiv, Bild 146-1990-067-23A / CC-BY-SA 3.0

Learn more about the famous hotel in this wikipedia article.